From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 04:40:33 CDT
In <3D2C5D6F.F8939805@cisco.com> Martin Djernaes <djernaes@cisco.com> writes:
>I'm not going to wind this one up again! but the "solution" is breaking the
>way Mr and Mrs Average expect to use a newsreader, and we have allready
>seen that some (ignorant?) admins filter out messages starting with "Re:"
>alike prefixes.
Any admin who does that will find no support in our document.
> [ yes I know that it's translations from Latin into some
>local language, but if people want to start a subject with Xy: it should be
>OK ... and so I was confirmed earlier ].
Yes, people can produce a Subject: Xy: foobar, and it should be posted.
But if a well-behaved newsreader produces a followup to his article, it
will say
Subject: Re: Xy: foobar
Which is a bit silly, so our draft says that a followup agent which is
smart enough to recognise that "Xy:" for what it is MAY drop it.
>Sad that no-one could come with a solution instead of a hack when this was
>done!
Are you saying that MAY is a "hack"?
Actually, mis-formed "Re:"s in followups are much rarer than they used to
be.
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